Hardware used in video gaming has helped turn an old telescope into a powerful new one, UTMOST. The University of Sydney’s Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), 50 km from Canberra, has been transformed by three universities—Sydney, Swinburne and the...

In general, galaxies ‘go with the flow’: they move further apart as the Universe expands. But that’s not the whole story. Galaxies are also drawn together by gravitational attraction. And this gives them an additional component of motion. By...

As elementary particles go, neutrinos—’little neutral ones’—are not newcomers: they were proposed by physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 and revealed by experiment in 1956. The ‘Standard Model’ of particle physics says they are massless. However,...

It is with great pleasure that the CAASTRO Advisory Board welcomes Professor Elaine Sadler as the new Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics. Elaine’s continued record of excellent leadership, science and international collaboration...

As an Indian story tells it, four blind men went to investigate an elephant. One felt its tusk, and one its tail; another felt its leg, while the fourth ran his hands over its side. And so they came to different conclusions about what an elephant was. The four blind...